Recovering from the horrific violence inflicted by The Joker, Barbara Gordon refuses to give up, forming a new identity and forging a new path to become the master cyber-sleuth Oracle. This episode is based on The Batman Chronicles #5 (May 1996), written by John Ostrander and Kim Yale, with artwork by Brian Stelfreeze and Karl Story, © &amp; ™ DC. Listen to DC HIGH VOLUME: BATMAN: https://lnk.to/DCHighVolume Learn more at: <a href="https://www.dc.com/highvolume">https://www.dc.com/highvolume</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

A Message and Date Knight

Bringing essential DC comic stories to life off the page and into the audio space — DC High Volume: Batman begins with the four-part adaptation of Year One. After traveling the world for over a decade, Bruce Wayne returns to Gotham City to find crime and corruption running rampant in the place he once called home. Knowing Gotham needs a hero, Bruce dons the cape and cowl for the first time becoming the Batman. If Batman and new allies Lieutenant Jim Gordon & District Attorney Harvey Dent succeed in removing the criminal heads of Gotham, who will replace them? A new face of villainy may appear leading to a Long Halloween of costumed criminals…&nbsp;
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An official adaptation of the comics Batman: Year One by writer Frank Miller and artist David Mazzucchelli, and Batman: The Long Halloween and Batman: Dark Victory by writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale.&nbsp;